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Seeing Visual Culture - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The unnoticed
        
        "How to not be seen" - The short film suggests was to be invisible to the outside world, many of the suggestions being ridiculous or unnecessary.
        
        "Invisible Images (Your pictures are looking at you" - Invisible images are actively watching us, poking and prodding, guiding our movements, inflicting pain and inducing pleasure. But all of this is hard to see.
        
        "All Light, Everywhere" - The vision of people are what determines what is seen. Similarly, the technology of the camera chooses what is seen in the reality of the film.
  - - - "Allegory of the Cave" - Place of knowledge and false illusion. Inward contemplation. Rediscovering of truth and light. Knowledge beings with light.
        
        "The Shadow & Interview" - The shadow is a representation of subconscious truth. The departure of the shadow and its return is a metaphor for the search of the man's desire of Beauty and Truth.
      - "Light as Metaphor of Truth" - Light allows for form and the existence of everything. Light and power are complicit.
  - - - "The Wizard of Oz" - The use of technicolor through shifting from black & white to color (sepia to color) is a tool that is not only used for aesthetics but also used to help narrate the storyline and characters.
      - "The World as a Whole: Color" - "Movies in color cede our recently natural (dramatic) grasp of those figures, not by denying so much as by neutralizing our connection with the world so filmed.
    - - "Teaching the Camera to See My Skin" - In the 1980's and before, photography was not meant to visually please the images of Black bodies.While developments could have been made, photographs were aimed to show beauty in Whiteness. The photographers had a choice of how its subjects would be seen in the resulting images.
      - "Colored People, Slow Fade to Black" - When the intentions are there, Black bodies can be captured in as much beauty, if not more, than White is.
- - - - "White Paintings". - The effects of whiteness with color and dimension.
      - "Le Vide" - A void can be created through simplicity and be drawn through the environment on the outside, such as the blue walls. An atmosphere is present even as an image.
      - "Untitled White Monochrome" - A blank, white canvas does not always need anything else to make it art.
        
        Lack of color as a void.
      - "Colors/Black" - Black is the absence of color. "The color that could have been." There is no trace of light in blackness... it serves as a void. Similar to white, there is a sense of nothingness.
        
        "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" - Similar to white, blackness can have negative connotations. In this series of artwork, the images are used to move away from fear that is associated with darkness, as it served as a space of security in the context of the Underground Railroad.
        
        "Darkening" - The exhibition is an example of abstract work that engages viewers through its mystic. The series of arts is filled with blue that almost fades into darkness, creating areas of light and darkness based on the hues used.
        
        "Toward the Inmaterial" - "Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not.
        
        "Using Black to Paint Light" - Choose something dark. Choose a dark line to hang above you. If you want to see what light can do, always choose the dark.
  - - - "Color of Subjectivity" - Colors are subjective to human experiences. The qualities and meaning of color are pulled from human biases. Human perception influences subjectivism of color.
        
        "Childs View of Color" - A child has more imagination than most adults. Because of this, colors work together to create a reality of their imagination. Their eyes are mostly pure, thus allowing them to have limitless opportunities to how they see and apply color.
        
        "Blue" & "Into the Blue" - The color blue in the film becomes exists as panoramic and transcending through the movie as it personifies the experience of the character as a reflection of the filmmaker's life, through his struggle with AIDS. The use of blue instead of black may be a decision between seeing and not seeing. Blues is a space of thinking and reflecting.
- - - - "Invisible Man" - The prologue showcases the effects of racism on the victim and perpetrator. The narrator, a Black man, describes being invisible a world full of White people. His individual existence is based through the lens of racism.
        
        "White" - In order to study whiteness, blackness must also be studied. White is a majority which is never really delved into. Films utilize and frame composition around whiteness.
        
        "Blinding Blondes" - "the artificial and excessive brightness in the blinding blonde as racial masquerade can be taken as a symptom of what it represses, its blackness."
        
        "All black Everything" - "One sees black and black alone, or one sees everything else without it, we might even say against it. To see black at all is to see all black everything."
        
        "The Fact of Blackness" - A discussion of alienation in the context of colonial violence. A need to demand recognition as an individual that is different from others who may look different and to move away from a feeling of being trapped by the color of one's skin.
        
        "Photography, Darkness, & the Underground Railroad" - Visual culture often overexposes Black bodies and hyper-visible in cases as well. These bodies suffer from both too much and not enough visibility.
      - "Persona (1996)" - The struggle of women in a patriarchal world. Black and white film that that shows how representation has an effect on power of an image. Rhythm and light